New Law against Misleading Domains

[MillerTyme]

Its officially the Law, federal offense to use misleading domain names to lure people to porn sites:

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By The Associated Press

Major elements of the child protection legislation President Bush (news - web sites) signed into law Wednesday:


- Establishes a national communications network to facilitate recovery of abducted children.


_Prohibits supplying or soliciting anything represented to be child pornography, including computer-generated images. Addresses a Supreme Court decision striking down parts of a 1996 anti-child pornography law by requiring that government prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant intended others to believe the material was obscene child pornography.


_Restricts federal judges' ability to reduce sentences for sex offenses and crimes against children.


_Denies pretrial release for defendants charged with child rape or child abduction.


_Allows prosecutors to bring child abduction and sex crime charges for the life of the child victim. Most federal crimes have a statute of limitations of five years, after which a crime cannot be prosecuted.


_Requires life imprisonment for twice-convicted child sex offenders.


_Allows federal judges to order supervision of released sex offenders for the rest of their lives, instead of the five-year maximum for most federal cases.


_Makes it illegal to attempt to take or keep a child outside the United States to avoid custody battles.


_Adds suspected sex crimes against children or sex trafficking as a justification for federal wiretapping of telephones.


_Makes it a federal crime to use a misleading domain name to trick adults into viewing obscenity on the Internet and or to trick children into viewing "material that is harmful to minors."


_Requires convicted child pornographers to register in the National Sex Offender Registry.
_Makes it a federal crime to use a misleading domain name to trick adults into viewing obscenity on the Internet and or to trick children into viewing "material that is harmful to minors." _Makes it a federal crime to use a misleading domain name to trick adults into viewing obscenity on the Internet and or to trick children into viewing "material that is harmful to minors."

[DaddyHalbucks]

_Makes it a federal crime to use a misleading domain name to trick adults into viewing obscenity on the Internet and or to trick children into viewing "material that is harmful to minors." _Makes it a federal crime to use a misleading domain name to trick adults into viewing obscenity on the Internet and or to trick children into viewing "material that is harmful to minors."
++++++++++++

How is "misleading" defined?

How is "trick" defined?

This law is ABSURD!

..AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

[DaddyHalbucks]

Someone please post a link to this Draconian statute...

[URLtrader]

So what will happen to the owner of whitehouse.com ?

[Spider]

nothing.

[adoptabledomains]

Originally posted by DotComCowboy
Someone please post a link to this Draconian statute...

Here is the text:


S.151
PROTECT Act (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)

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Subtitle B--Truth in Domain Names

SEC. 521. MISLEADING DOMAIN NAMES ON THE INTERNET.

(a) IN GENERAL- Chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2252A the following:

`Sec. 2252B. Misleading domain names on the Internet

`(a) Whoever knowingly uses a misleading domain name on the Internet with the intent to deceive a person into viewing material constituting obscenity shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

`(b) Whoever knowingly uses a misleading domain name on the Internet with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing material that is harmful to minors on the Internet shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 4 years, or both.

`(c) For the purposes of this section, a domain name that includes a word or words to indicate the sexual content of the site, such as `sex' or `porn', is not misleading.

`(d) For the purposes of this section, the term `material that is harmful to minors' means any communication, consisting of nudity, sex, or excretion, that, taken as a whole and with reference to its context--

`(1) predominantly appeals to a prurient interest of minors;

`(2) is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for minors; and

`(3) lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

`(e) For the purposes of subsection (d), the term `sex' means acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or physcial contact with a person's genitals, or the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.'.

(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT- The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2252A the following new item:

`2252B. Misleading domain names on the Internet.'.

Here is the link to the entire act:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.151.ENR:

[FineE]

This law has given a boost in value to domains that contain the words "sex" and "porn" especially if they are short and relevant, due to the chilling effects alone. I mean a market has just been created for those wishing to sell a "solution" to "protect" an adult website operator from this "draconian" law.

It will also diminish the value of many "type in traffic" domains.

[DaddyHalbucks]

NBC10.com: Your Child Could Be Internet Victim In Minutes

Convicted Predator Warns Parents To Keep Eye On Children

http://www.nbc10.com/news/2008660/detail.html

[URLtrader]

How about a law to deal with misleading Priests , Politicians and CEOs ?

[Garry Anderson]

Originally posted by URLtrader
How about a law to deal with misleading Priests , Politicians and CEOs ?

I had the exact same idea myself upon hearing about this law.

whitehouse.gov would become IraqiCivillianMurderers.gov

Bush condemns Saddam for killing civillians - and yet does not see anything wrong with HIMSELF killing them.

So much so, (they are worth so little to him) that he cannot bother to count their deaths - or even keep an estimate.

Such is his contempt for the Iraqi peoples.